Classics
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Tony Kushner, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'ILLUSION COMIQUE
Description
A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesMolière, adapted by Constance Congdon, based on a new translation by Dan SmithDescription
Love is funny. Love is trickery. Love is … smelly? It's certainly a merry-go-round of misplaced desires and hidden agendas in Constance Congdon's fresh and hilarious new take on Molière's skewering of a health-care crisis from an entirely different century... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesMolière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Molière's classic comic masterpiece is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize) and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesNikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 135 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesNikolai Gogol, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick.
Production Info
Cast: 27 total (6 female, 21 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesEugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The classic 1851 farce. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (6 female, 12 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesAnton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE, JITTERBUGGING: SCENES OF SEX IN A NEW SOCIETY is set in 1947... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesCarlo Gozzi, translated and adapted by Natalya BaldygaDescription
From the adaptor's note: This play is full of transformations, and through the act of adaptation, it has undergone transformations of its own... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, a chrous, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesGeorges Feydeau, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Often described as Feydeau's masterpiece, THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S charts the trials and tribulations of a certain proper Doctor Petypon who wakes up with a hangover only to find in his bed “The Shrimp,” a dancer at the Moulin Rouge and lady of the night... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 28 total (11 female, 17 male, doubling possible, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesHenrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology. Ellida Wangel cannot give herself fully to her husband because she is overwhelmed by memories of the past and her attraction to the ocean... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 200 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesHenrik Ibsen, translated by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's rarely performed play, THE LADY FROM THE SEA, was written just before HEDDA GABLER. It is a powerful expression of a woman's search for her own identity, in a world where women are defined by who they are with, instead of who they are or who they could become.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesEdmond Rostand, translated by Brian VineroDescription
Don Juan's sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil's dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, doubling possible, many female bit parts possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesMolière, translated from the French into English by A R Waller, adapted by Steven Pimlott and Colin ChambersDescription
Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery focuses on the women folk of Chrysale's household, who look on all but intellectual pursuits as worthless and spurn love in favour of learning... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesGeorg Büchner, adapted by Sean GraneyDescription
Büchner's classic is brought to vivid life in Sean Graney's sensational adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes